A brand-new, cutting-edge telescope called the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to release its first images to the world, and the public can watch in real time. On June 23 the observatory will ...

Astronomers have created a galactic masterpiece: an ultra-detailed image that reveals previously unseen features in the Sculptor Galaxy. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...

Perched high in the Chilean Andes, the observatory will take hundreds of images of the southern hemisphere sky, every night for 10 years. In doing so, it will create the most complete time-lapse ...

Here’s how it works. The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop in Chile, seen in August 2024. Rubin will revolutionize the way we explore the cosmos.

The Arecibo Observatory’s suspended equipment platform collapsed just before 8 a.m. local time on December 1, falling more than 450 feet and crashing through the telescope’s massive radio dish ...

Mount Washington Observatory shares ‘beautiful display’ of northern lights By Sarah Mesdjian Globe Correspondent,Updated June 3, 2025, 2:48 p.m.

Rubin Observatory's LSST is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fill in the missing pieces of our solar system, said Mario Juric, a member of the Sorcha team and a UW professor of Astronomy.

An observatory high on Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano that measures carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reported its highest ever seasonal peak concentration of the greenhouse gas. For the first time ...

The software suggests that, over the course of a 10-year campaign known as the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, the Rubin Observatory will map more than 5 million main-belt asteroids, 127,000 near ...

The Rubin Observatory features an 8.4-metre primary mirror and a 3.2-gigapixel camera, one of the largest digital cameras ever constructed for ground-based astronomy.

The observatory in Livingston Parish that made a historic scientific breakthrough by detecting gravitational waves is now at risk of shutting down under the Trump administration's proposed federal ...